Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I will use a flower petal for paper, And write you the sweetest letter,” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion".” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But Mariam hardly noticed, hardly cared...the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that Love was a damaging… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She understood then what Nana meant, that a harami was an unwanted thing; that she, Mariam, was an illegitimate person who would… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But for a moment, standing there with Tariq in the sunlight, it was as though those years had never happened. Her parents… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling and squirming in her mother's… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I've crossed paths since with men like him. I wish I could say differently. But I have. And what I have learned… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. Time, blunting the edges of those sharp memories. Laila bore… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Love is a delicate thing that needs to be cosseted and protected. Love is not robust and love is not unyielding. Love… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The reason was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Their fights didn’t so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I pray. I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I'd always feared they would.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
![“With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to dust off, to resuscitate once again what was long dead. There would come a day, in fact, years later, when [she] would no longer bewail his loss. Or not as relentlessly…” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/776/khaled-hosseini-251_fitness_with-the-passing-of-time-she-would-slowl_2315580.jpg)
